Hi Daria,
Very sorry for the trouble -- my fault. Please try "pip install --upgrade
pyshortcuts".
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From: Daria Boglaienko <dbogl...@fiu.edu>
Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2024 9:14 PM
To: Matthew Newville <newvi...@cars.uchicago.edu>; XAFS Analysis using Ifeffit
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Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] Re-Installing Larch for Windows
Thank you very much for the quick response.
The error message is when I type larix in Anaconda Prompt:
Import Error: cannot import name ‘get_desktop’ from ‘pyshortcuts’
(C:\Users\…\AppData\Local\xraylarch\Lib\site-packages\pyshortcuts\__init__.py)
Thank you for helping!
Daria
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From: Matt Newville <newvi...@cars.uchicago.edu>
Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2024 10:23 AM
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Cc: Daria Boglaienko <dbogl...@fiu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Ifeffit] Re-Installing Larch for Windows
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Hi Daria,
Sorry for the trouble. Just as a general comment, and because I see this too
often, "I uninstalled and reinstalled it N times" hardly ever works. I
understand that it is a fairly easy thing to do, but it is rare for
reinstalling to fix problems other than corrupted files or the occasional
conflict between libraries. There is no need to do that more than once.
A bug report like this is really hard for us to diagnose. Like, why did an
earlier version stop loading? Something must have changed there. Do you have
any idea what that could be? Is that important?
You say that you also uninstalled Anaconda and Python, implying you may have
had a different Python environment installed. If you install Larch from the
installer or GetLarch script, it will always install a completely isolated
Python environment. You can use an existing Python or conda environment if you
want, but if you do that, you do sort of take responsibility for doing at least
some troubleshooting of running Python programs.
I'll assume that you installed from the provided installer. If you open your
Anaconda Prompt for the version of xraylarch that you installed, you should get
a prompt like:
(base) C:\Users\yourname>
and you should be able to type "larix" there to start the Larix application.
You said that you see files in the Scripts directory, so that means that at
least most of the installation work. If you get "larix is not a recognized
command", then try to figure out why your Anaconda prompt is not set up
correctly or set the Path to include the appropriate Scripts folder.
If you get some other message, read and try to understand the messages printed
out. Is some package missing? Perhaps
pip install missing_library
will fix that. If you don't understand the message, please post the entire
message, preferably as text with reasonable contrast. Shells on Windows often
default to red text on a black background, which is very hard to read (at
least, for me). Please do not post an image of that. Copy the text and post
that.
If Larix does run, then typing
larch -m
will create the Larch folder on your desktop and include the shortcuts to
starting the programs. If it does not, then post the error messages.
--Matt
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